News

ICPSR Summer Program Registration Now Open

By Ann Starkey, February 11 2009

Registration is now open for the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. This program is held from June 22 through August 14, 2009.

Faculty Affiliate Kenneth Shepsle Announces Publications

By Ann Starkey, February 9 2009

Kenneth Shepsle, George D. Markham Professor of Government and a faculty associate of the IQSS, recently announced several publications for 2009 and 2010. Shepsle's research focuses on formal models of political institutions and intergenerational politics.

IQSS Members Publish Analysis of Computational Social Science Emerging Field

By Ann Starkey, February 6 2009

David Lazer, Nicholas Christakis, Gary King, and others published the article "Computational Social Science" in the current issue of Science magazine, promoting the need for greater academic participation in this emerging discipline.

David Cutler to go to Washington

By Emily Ware, February 3 2009

Former Dean of the Social Sciences David M. Cutler has been chosen to work with the Obama administration on the issue of health care policy. Cutler, one of the chief architects of Obama’s health care plan, has long advocated the need for reform of America’s medical system.

Researchers Discover Happiness to be Contagious

By Emily Ware, January 22 2009

IQSS-affiliated professor Dr. Nicholas Christakis published a study which maps out the social networks among happy and unhappy individuals. The study was published in the December 2008 issue of British Medical Journal.

Did you join us at the IQSS Inauguration Party?

By Ann Starkey, January 18 2009

The IQSS community watched the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 20, in a celebration of history in the making.

Opportunity for IQSS Grad Student Affiliate to Act as Liaison

By Ann Starkey, January 13 2009

The Institute for Quantitative Social Science seeks a current graduate student affiliate to act as liaison across the Institute's graduate student population, faculty, and administrators. As the primary link between IQSS and the graduate students, the liaison will be responsible for regularly keeping in touch with the students regarding preferred activities, timing of events, and more.

Glaeser's Industrial Analysis Can Inform Economic Policy

By Ann Starkey, January 12 2009

Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard and an IQSS Faculty Associate, published an article on the effects of markets and culture on local industrial developments.

Dr. Micah Altman: Redefining the Evidence Base of Social Science

By Emily Ware, December 24 2008

In addition to his administrative duties, Dr. Micah Altman, Senior Scientist at IQSS, conducts research in social science informatics, social science research methodology, and American politics, focusing on the intersection of information, technology, and politics; and on the dissemination, preservation, and reliability of scientific knowledge.

Japanese Researcher Maps Water Flow in the Developing World

By Anonymous, December 9 2008

Akiyuki Kawasaki, a Japanese researcher and visiting scholar at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, recently spoke at the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA). Kawasaki has developed software that enables researchers to predict how changes in population, land use, climate, urbanization, agriculture and other variables will affect water flow in a given area.